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The impact of schoolbags on postural health in school-aged children: an updated...

<jats:p>Schoolbags represent a common source of physical strain for school-aged children and may influence posture during critical years of growth. This systematic review synthesizes evidence published since the previous review (1995–2014), which mainly focused on load thresholds and did not consider postural health as a multidimensional outcome. The review protocol was prospectively registered in PROSPERO (CRD...

Sex differences in body composition and physical fitness of young basketball pl...

<jats:p>Introduction: Throughout adolescence, sex differences are observed for anthropometric, body composition, and physical fitness variables. Objective: This study’s aims were: (1) to explore differences in anthropometry, body composition, and physical fitness performance between male and female youth basketball players, and (2) to examine the relationships between body composition, strength, and balance per...

Volunteer management in sports tourism events: Motivation and satisfaction as d...

Effective volunteer management in sports tourism events depends on understanding motivations, segmenting profiles, and fostering satisfaction to ensure continuity and event success. The purpose of this study was to examine volunteer motivation, investigate differences in motivation based on gender and age, and identify key predictors of the intention to continue volunteering. The sample consisted of 390 partici...

A pandemia da inatividade: as ferramentas digitais como instrumento de atuação

Por uma pandemia da felicidade através das escolas

Characterizing psychomotor abilities of male handball players of different age ...

<jats:p>Sports performance is highly influenced by players’ mental, emotional, and psychomotor abilities. Particularly in handball, training methods aim to maximize players’ performance by fusing physical conditioning with cognitive abilities. The aim of this research was twofold: (1) to characterize players’ psychomotor abilities according to their age categories (U14, U16, and U18), and (2) to analyze the dif...

Caracterização fisiológica do jogo de walking football em adultos idosos

Nos últimos anos, a prática de atividades físicas para idosos tem recebido crescente atenção devido aos seus potenciais benefícios para a saúde e bem-estar dessa população (Gouveia et al., 2023; Moreno-Agostino et al., 2020; Posadzki et al., 2020; Xu et al., 2023). Uma dessas atividades em ascensão é o "walking football", uma variação do futebol convencional que é jogada a um ritmo mais lento, sem corridas ou c...

Lower-body power, body composition, speed, and agility performance among youth ...

Speed and agility have been described as crucial abilities for soccer players. The purpose of this study was to analyze, in detail, the variance in speed and agility tasks explained by lower-body power after controlling for age and body composition. The participants were 96 male soccer players aged 16.1 ± 1.6 years. Body composition (stature, body fat percentage-BF%, body mass, and fat-free mass-FFM), lower-bod...

Sports injuries of a Portuguese professional football team: a 3-year longitudin...

Football is known for its fast-paced and intensive activities from a professional standpoint, exposing professional football players to a high injury risk across their sportive careers. This study aimed to describe and characterise the sportive injuries of a First Portuguese Football League professional football team over three consecutive seasons. Seventy-one male professional football players (age = 25.7 ± 3....

Systematization of the types of adaptations requested in pedestrian routes: hum...

The aim of this work is to create a structure of knowledge that allows to understand and explain different adaptations requested in pedestrian routes to individuals. We establish the conceptual framework in which this study fits and define its application to two types of frequent adaptations in these activities: uneven terrain and sloped terrain (downhill), establishing which variables to consider and how they ...